By Tim Lambert
Birtwistle 1934- Composer
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE Dawn Acton 1977- Actress
BACUP Betty Jackson 1949- Fashion designer
Edward Bevan 1856-1921 Chemist
Sir Lewis Casson 1875-1969 Actor
Glenda Jackson 1937- Actress
Norman Thelwell 1923-2004 Cartoonist
John Morley 1838-1923 Writer
Steve Pemberton 1967- Actor
BLACKPOOL Michael Smith 1932-2000 Chemist
Samuel Crompton 1752-1827 Inventor of the spinning mule (1779)
William Lassell 1799-1880 Astronomer
Viscount Leverhulme 1851-1925 Industrialist
Thomas Marin 1872-1953 Artist
BURY
Richmal Crompton 1890-1969 Writer
Sir Robert Peel 1788-1850 Founded the first modern police force and was twice Prime minister
Nikki Sanderson 1986- Actress
BURNLEY Sir Ian McKellen 1939- Actor
Bernard Barton 1784-1849 Poet
William Best 1829-1897 Musician
Samuel Bough 1822-1878 Artist
Mandell Creighton 1843-1901 Historian
Margaret Forster 1938-2016 Writer
COCKERMOUTH William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Poet
CHORLEY
Sir Norman Haworth 1883-1950 Chemist
Henry Tate 1819-1899 Businessman and founder of the Tate Gallery
CLIFTON, CUMBRIA John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson 1728-1808 Industrialist
DALTON IN FURNESS George Romney 1734-1802 Artist
ECCLES
Robert Ainsworth 1660-1743 Lexicographer
Sydney Chapman 1888-1970 Mathematician
HEYWOOD, LANCASHIRE Julie Goodyear 1942- Actor
HIGHER WALTON, LANCASHIRE Kathleen Farrier 1912-1953 Singer
KENDAL Sir Arthur Eddington 1882-1944 Astronomer
KESWICK Sara Coleridge 1802-1852 Writer
Eliza Lynn Linton 1822-1898 Writer
Laurence Binyon 1869-1943 Poet
Henry Cort 1740-1800 Inventor
Sir John Fleming 1849-1945 Electronic engineer
Sir richard Owen 1804-1892 Biologist
William Whewell 1794-1866 Philosopher
Liverpool
Beryl Bainbridge 1934-2010 Writer
Alan Bleasdale 1946- Writer
Charles Booth 1840-1916 Famous for surveys of poverty
Cilla Black 1943-2015 Singer
Craig Charles 1964- Actor
John Conway 1937- Mathematician
Elvis Costello 1955- Singer
Kenny Everett 1944-1995 Comedian
William Gladstone 1809-1898 Prime minister 4 times
Sir Richard Glazebrook 1854-1935 Physicist
George Harrison 1943-
Lynda La Plante 1946- Writer
Sir Paul McCartney 1942-
Nicholas Monsarrat 1910-1979 Writer
Ringo Starr 1940-
George Stubbs 1724-1806 Artist
Manchester
William Ainsworth 1805-1882 Writer
John Alcock 1892-1919 With Arthur Whitten Brown flew the Atlantic in 1919
Tom Baker 1934- Actor
Anthony Burgess 1917-1993 Writer
Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 Writer
Samuel Clegg 1781-1861 Inventor
Les Dawson 1931-1993 Comedian
Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859 Writer
Roger Fenton 1819-1869 Photographer
Sir Norman Foster 1935- Architect
David Lloyd George 1863-1945 Prime minister 1916-1922
Sir Arthur Harden 1865-1940 Biochemist
Ian Hay 1876-1952 Writer
John Ireland 1879-1962 Composer
L S Lowry 1887-1976 Artist
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928 Campaigned for women’s right to vote
John Thaw 1942-2002 Actor
MIDDLETON Steve Coogan 1965- Actor
OLDHAM Eric Sykes 1923-2012 Comedian
ORMSKIRK Sir James Jeans 1877-1946 Astronomer
Richard Arkwright 1732-1792 Inventor of Spinning Mule (1779)
Roy Barraclough 1935-2017 Actor
Angela Brazil 1868-1947 Writer
Eddie Calvert 1922-1978 Trumpeter
John Inman 1935-2007 Comedy actor
John Lawton 1943- Ecologist
Helen Lemmens-Sherrington 1834-1906 Singer
Peter Purves 1939- TV presenter
Francis Thompson 1859-1907 Poet
ROCHDALE
G H Elliott 1884-1962 Singer
Gracie Fields 1898-1979 Singer
SALFORD
Shelagh Delaney 1939- Playwright
Albert Finney 1936-2019 Actor
Walter Greenwood 1903-1974 Writer
James Joule 1818-1889 Scientist
Mike Leigh 1943- Film Director
Ewan MacColl 1915-1989 Singer/songwriter
Anne Howells 1941- Opera Singer
Miranda Richardson 1958- Actress
William Rimmer 1862-1936 Composer
Stanley Runcorn 1922-1995 Geophysicist
Edmund Whittaker 1873-1956 Mathematician
Sir Thomas Beecham 1879-1961 Composer
John Draper 1811-1882 Chemist
John Rylands 1801-1888 Industrialist
Sir George Back 1796-1878 Explorer
Sir Horace Lamb 1849-1934 Mathematician
Sir Joseph Whitworth 1803-1887 Engineer
THORNTON, BRADFORD Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855 Novelist
TOXTETH Jeremiah Horrocks 1619-1641 Astronomer
ULVERSTON Stan Laurel 1890-1965 Comedian
George Formby 1904-1961 Entertainer
Davinia Taylor 1977- Actress
WESTWARD, WIGTON, CUMBRIA Sir William Bragg 1862-1942 Scientist
WIGTON, CUMBRIA Melvyn Bragg 1939- Writer
WINDERMERE Arthur Somervell 1863-1937 Composer
